Notes for April 2011

Number of items in this month's catalogue: 2

1. Price increases: Naxos of America have increased most of their distributed labels' prices across the board. Thus, you'll notice dollar increases in the price of Chandos and of Naxos itself and several labels such as Profil and Oehms Classics which were $16.98 will go up a dollar. Also: Albany Music Distributors have done basically the same thing across their own list of distributed labels. So, you'll see Albany, Alba, Danacord, etc. at $17.98 while several other labels which used to be $17.98 and $18.98 will also go up by a dollar. In some cases, this is the second price increase I've had during the past 4-5 years on a few labels but the first time I've increased my own retail price. Needless to say, these prices will remain lower than the standard retail prices charged by most of my competitors.

2. Orchestral repertoire: You've probably noticed a lack of quantity in this area over the last few months. Me too. But cpo has three good ones for the June catalogue and there are seven new Dutton Epochs - also likely for June. Chandos begins their Rufinatscha symphony cycle next month. So it appears that there's nothing to worry about yet - just a statistical blip in the release schedules. So hang in there! Goodies are coming!